2009 The Year in Review, by Dave Barry - An Excellent Read

I'm not acquainted with Dave Barry.  I stumbled across this article on drudge the other day while at work and circulated it to a few of the fools  folks there.  Mr. Barry has a sharp wit and his humor can be, at times, scathing. I don't know if the man is conservative or stupid  * ahem* liberal but he seems to take shots equally at both.  Enjoy.

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JANUARY
. . . during which history is made in Washington, D.C., where a crowd estimated by the Congressional Estimating Office at 217 billion people gathers to watch Barack Obama be inaugurated as the first American president ever to come after George W. Bush. There is a minor glitch in the ceremony when Chief Justice John Roberts, attempting to administer the oath of office, becomes confused and instead reads the side-effect warnings for his decongestant pills, causing the new president to swear that he will consult his physician if he experiences a sudden loss of sensation in his feet. President Obama then delivers an upbeat inaugural address, ushering in a new era of cooperation, civility and bipartisanship in a galaxy far, far away. Here on Earth everything stays much the same.

The No. 1 item on the agenda is fixing the economy, so the new administration immediately sets about the daunting task of trying to nominate somebody -- anybody -- to a high-level government post who actually remembered to pay his or her taxes. Among those who forgot this pesky chore is Obama's nominee for Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, who sheepishly admits that he failed to pay $35,000 in federal self-employment taxes. He says that the error was a result of his using TurboTax, which he also blames for his involvement in an eight-state spree of bank robberies. He is confirmed after the Obama administration explains that it inherited the U.S. Tax Code from the Bush administration.

Elsewhere in politics, a team of specially trained wildlife agents equipped with nets and tranquilizer darts manages, after a six-hour struggle, to remove Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office. He is transported to an undisclosed swamp, where he is released into the wild and quickly bonds with the native ferret population....

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Read the rest here.

Happy New Year!

A Late Merry Christmas and a timely Happy New Year

Merry Christmas Everyone, my fondest wishes of peace and merriment are yours.  I hope everyone has a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

And by Prosperous, of course I mean let's fervently pray that Herr Obama and the procession of fools called Congress don't tax our rear ends off before the 2010 election tosses a goodly portion of those elected leeches out of office and out of our wallets.

Interesting: National Debt Clock

The National Debt Clock, with a list of sources for each figure.  

I tried like hell to get the clock to embed here, but could not... Click the link and see how our dollars are drained away... Fascinating, and more than a little morose...

Here is a snapshot to look at as of approximates 2:30 today:

Sobering?  And imagine when healthcare is added to the mix.  Social Security and Medicare already make up about 1.3 Trillion...Obamacare will be about 1.2 Trillion... I'm betting you didn't think the 'Change' Obama kept talking about meant economic slavery and financial collapse...

Climategate already getting traction in Australia... Obama, Dems, Media ignoring...

The Aussies just nixed cap and trade legislation before their senate.  Climategate, the growing story about how prominent pro Anthropogenic Global Warming scientists cooked the books to derive the results they wanted, was part of the reason the legislation failed.  And by cooked the books, I mean ignored evidence, disregarded piles of data, and plotted ways to altogether do away with findings that were deemed too damaging to 'The Cause'. 

So much for the scientific methodology, not to mention integrity.

Meanwhile here in the USSA (the extra 'S' is for Socialist!), the Obama administration has ignored Climategate.  The Dems, displaying an disturbingly unusual solidarity with the president (/sarcasm), have also ignored it.  The media (ABC, NBC, and CBS) have not mentioned it a single time.  Not once, in fourteen (14) days. 

Gee. I wonder why they're so silent?  I don't know about ABC or CBS, but I can see why NBC is ignoring it.  Owned by GE (for now), NBC has carried the banner for Global Warming (not to mention Universal Healthcare).  You can hardly watch NBC shows without several mentions a night of some sort of 'Green Initiative' or Healthcare quip. It's even crept in several times this year alone on the one NBC show I still faithfully pay attention to, The Office... It's almost as if GE would somehow benefit from Global Warming...

But they may not get away with it.  Especially with new allegations of NASA participating in its own version of Climategate.  Nothing like a lawsuit to stir the pot. I hear Al Gore is tripping over his own clodlike feet to settle out of court on the NASA case.  (I hear he's even threatening to put his cold liver lips together with Tipper's again on National TV unless the judge does away with the case...).  Wouldn't want any truly inconvenient truths to come out now, would we?

That smell liberals keep wrinkling their nose at is something fishy (to them) coming out of Denmark.  Seems those silly Danes aren't taking AGW as seriously as the rest of the world (Minus Australia) (Oh yeah, and India) is taking it.  And good for them.  IT's about time somebody shot holes in the holy grail of scientific consensus.  Especially since that consensus never truly existed other than in NYT articles and spouted by liberals in every other breath.

Finally that 'overwhelming' consensus of AGW/MMGW is beginning to weaken.  Hopefully it will fall apart quickly enough, especially in the face of these damning news stories, to kill our own excursion into socialism cap and trade legislation.  That would really be some nice hope and change for once.